Eurocare Updates

Alcohol Concern is calling for boards to have a formal responsibility to address financial losses incurred through workers' reduced performance caused by alcohol.

Source: Alcohol Policy Youth Network
APYN in April 2011 initiated a study on the Impact of Marketing, Price and Availability of Alcohol on Young People’s Consumption levels.

Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, today welcomed the new National Substance Misuse Strategy

4th of February marked the World Cancer Day, this disease is the leading cause of death in several European countries. Alcohol increases the risk of getting cancer

The research found that women who had two drinks a week had 1.5 times the risk of miscarriage as those who didn't drink at all.

Alcohol Action Ireland co-hosted the conference “A Family Affair? Supporting children living with parental substance abuse”.

Source: IOGT International

Fifa, football’s world governing body, keeps insisting that alcohol must be sold at all venues hosting matches in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) has recently included SABMiller, the world’s second largest brewer by sales volume, as a recipient for an education intervention which is aiming to minimize alcohol-related harm, such as HIV prevention, among men in drinking establishment.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), together with the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), recently published the report “Alcohol and Sex: A Cocktail for Poor Sexual Health”

Reports and presentations from the 9th meeting of the Committee on National Alcohol Policy and Action, 17 November 2011, is now available.